Inge Ehlers (teacher)

Inge Ehlers 2009

Inge Ehlers , b. Birwer (born September 22, 1945 in Hagen ) is a German teacher and long-time volunteer at the AllerWeltHaus cultural center in Hagen.

education and profession

Inge Ehlers is the daughter of Cäcilie Schulte and the doctor Wilhelm Birwer and grew up with three brothers in the Westphalian industrial city of Hagen after the death of her father. After completing school, she studied at the Pedagogical University in Dortmund and worked at various elementary and secondary schools in her home town from 1968 until her retirement in 2009. She has been married since 1968 and has three children, the Olympic swimmer Lisa Vitting is her niece.

Volunteering and honors

Since 1977 Inge Ehlers has worked on a voluntary basis in the Third World Store , which was established in Hagen in 1976, and continued her work in the AllerWeltHaus cultural center , a "supra-regional center for developmental cultural and educational work".

In July 2007, the meeting café in the AllerWeltHaus, with Inge Ehlers as director, was awarded the "Prize for Peace, Justice and Preservation of Creation" from the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . On March 20, 2009 she and her husband Klaus Ehlers received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany for their decades of voluntary work .

literature

• "A small project became a regional center: The Cross of Merit on Ribbon for the Ehlers". District government Arnsberg, press release 281/09 Arnsberg, 10 June 2009

Web links

• Federal Cross of Merit for the Ehlers couple (PDF; 93 kB)
• "Fairer Handel" - garden show guests donate more than 15,000 euros ( accessed on March 20, 2012 )
• From conscience to pleasure shopping July 6, 2007
• The Salzkorn - Promotion Prize for Peace, Justice and Preservation of Creation of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia (PDF; 212 kB) 2007